Academic literature on the topic 'Sap r/3 (computer program)'

Problem solving skills are very important in supporting social development. Children with problem solving skills can build healthy relationships with their friends, understand the emotions of those around them, and see events with other people's perspectives. The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation of playing unplugged coding programs in improving early childhood problem solving skills. This study used a classroom action research design, using the Kemmis and Taggart cycle models. The subjects of this study were children aged 5-6 years in Shafa Marwah Kindergarten. Research can achieve the target results of increasing children's problem-solving abilities after going through two cycles. In the first cycle, the child's initial problem-solving skills was 67.5% and in the second cycle it increased to 80.5%. The initial skills of children's problem-solving increases because children tend to be enthusiastic and excited about the various play activities prepared by the teacher. The stimulation and motivation of the teacher enables children to find solutions to problems faced when carrying out play activities. So, it can be concluded that learning unplugged coding is an activity that can attract children's interest and become a solution to bring up children's initial problem-solving abilities. Keywords: Early Childhood, Unplugged Coding, Problem solving skills References: Akyol-Altun, C. (2018). Algorithm and coding education in pre-school teaching program integration the efectiveness of problem-solving skills in students. Angeli, C., Smith, J., Zagami, J., Cox, M., Webb, M., Fluck, A., & Voogt, J. (2016). A K-6 Computational Thinking Curriculum Framework: Implications for Teacher Knowledge. Educational Technology & Society, 12. Anlıak, Ş., & Dinçer, Ç. (2005). Farklı eğitim yaklaşımları uygulayan okul öncesi eğitim kurumlarına devam eden çocukların kişilerarası problem çözme becerilerinin değerlendirilmesi. Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakülte Dergis. Aranda, G., & Ferguson, J. P. (2018). Unplugged Programming: The future of teaching computational thinking? Pedagogika, 68(3). https://doi.org/10.14712/23362189.2018.859 Arinchaya Threekunprapa. (2020). Patterns of Computational Thinking Development while Solving Unplugged Coding Activities Coupled with the 3S Approach for Self_Directed Learning. European Journal of Educational Research, 9(3), 1025–1045. Arı, M. (2003). Türkiye’de erken çocukluk eğitimi ve kalitenin önemiNo Title. Erken Çocuklukta Gelişim ve Eğitimde Yeni Yaklaşımlar. Armoni, M. (2012). Teaching CS in kindergarten: How early can the pipeline begin? ACM Inroads, 3(4), 18–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/2381083.2381091 Aydoğan, Y. (2004). İlköğretim ikinci ve dördüncü sınıf öğrencilerine genel problem çözme becerilerinin kazandırılmasında eğitimin etkisinin incelenmesi. Bell, T., Alexander, J., Freeman, I., & Grimley, M. (2009). Computer Science Unplugged: School students doing real computing without computers. 10. Berk, L. E. (2013). Bebekler ve çocuklar: Doğum öncesinden orta çocukluğa. N. Işıkoğlu Erdoğan, Çev. Bers, M. U. (2018). Coding, playgrounds, and literacy in early childhood education: The devel_opment of KIBO robotics and Scratch Jr. IEEE. Brackmann, C. P., Moreno-León, J., Román-González, M., Casali, A., Robles, G., & Barone, D. (2017). Development of computational thinking skills through unplugged activities in primary school. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 65–72. https://doi.org/10.1145/3137065.3137069 Brennan, K., & Resnick, M. (2012). New frameworks for studying and assessing the development of computational thinking. 25. Deek, F. P. (1999). The software process: A parallel approach through problem solving and program development. Computer Science Education. Demi̇Rer, V., & Sak, N. (2016). Programming Education and New Approaches Around the World and in Turkey. 26. Dereli-İman. (2014). Değerler eğitimi programının 5-6 yaş çocukların sosyal gelişimine etkisi: Sosyal beceri, psiko-sosyal gelişim ve sosyal problem çözme becerisi. Kuram ve Uygulamada Eğitim Bilimleri. Doğru, M., Arslan, A., & Şeker, F. (2011). Okul öncesinde uygulanan fen etkinliklerinin 5-6 yaş çocukların problem çözme becerilerine etkisi. Uluslararası Türkiye Eğiti Araştırmaları Kongresi. Erickson, A. S. G., Noonan, P., Zheng, C., & Brussow, J. A. (2015). The relationship between self-determination and academic achievement for adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 36, 45–54. Fee, S. B., & Holland-Minkley, A. M. (2010). Teaching computer science through problems, not solutions. 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How to learn and how to teach computational thinking: Suggestions based on a review of the literature. Computers & Education, 126, 296–310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.07.004 Ismail, M. N., Ngah, N. A., & Umar, I. N. (2010). Instructional strategy in the teaching of computer programming: A need assessment analyses. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology. Ismail, M. N., Ngah, N. A., & Umar, I. N. (2010). Instructional Strategy in The Teaching of Computer Programming: A Need Assessment Analyses. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 9(2), 7. Jitendra, A. K., Petersen-Brown, S., Lein, A. E., Zaslofsky, A. F., Kunkel, A. K., Jung, P.-G., & Egan, A. M. (2013). Teaching Mathematical Word Problem Solving: The Quality of Evidence for Strategy Instruction Priming the Problem Structure. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 48(1), 51–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219413487408 Joohi Lee. (2019). Coding in early childhood. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Kalyuga, S., Renkl, A., & Paas, F. (2010). Facilitating flexible problem solving: A cognitive load perspective. Educational Psychology Review. Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-67-2 Kesicioğlu, O. S. (2015). Okul öncesi dönem çocukların kişilerarası problem çözme becerilerinin incelenmesi. Eğitim ve Bilim. Koksal Akyol, A. ve Didin, E. (2016). Ahlak gelisimi [Moral development]. In Cocuk Gelisimi icinde [In Child Development]. Lazakidou, G., & Retalis, S. (2010). Using computer supported collaborative learning strategies for helping students acquire self-regulated problem-solving skills in mathematics. Computers & Education, 54(1), 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.02.020 Looi, C.-K., How, M.-L., Longkai, W., Seow, P., & Liu, L. (2018). Analysis of linkages between an unplugged activity and the development of computational thinking. 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Structured flowcharts outperform pseudocode: An experimental comparison. IEEE Software, 6(5), 28–36. https://doi.org/10.1109/52.35587 Sheehan, K. J., Pila, S., Lauricella, A. R., & Wartella, E. A. (2019). Parent-child interaction and children’s learning from a coding application. Computers & Education, 140, 103601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103601 Shute, V. J., Sun, C., & Asbell-clarke, J. (2017). Demystifying computational thinking. Educational Research Review. Sigelman, C. K., & Rider, E. A. (2012). Life-span Human Development (7th ed.). Cengage Learning. Sullivan, A., & Bers, M. U. (2016). Robotics in the early childhood classroom: Learning outcomes from an 8-week robotics curriculum in pre-kindergarten through second grade. International Journal of Tech_nology and Design Education, 26, 3–20. Sullivan, A. A., Bers, M. U., & Mihm, C. (2017). International conference on com_putational thinking education. 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AbstractA CCD UBVRI survey of northern open clusters is being undertaken at San Pedro Mártir, México, and performed using always the same instrumental setup (telescope, CCD, filters), reduction methods, and system of standards of Landolt (1992). To date more than 300 clusters (mostly unstudied previously) have been observed, and about half the data reduced using aperture-photometry and PSF techniques. Our analysis procedures are being refined by studying in detail a small subset of these clusters. For example, the heavily reddened clusters Be80 and Be95 are being examined in the color-color diagrams: (B-V, U-B) and (B-V, R-I) to better understand the problems of curvature and variable reddening. For clusters for which our U data reaches the F-type stars, such as NGC2192 and NGC7296, techniques are being examined for estimating both the reddening E(B-V) and metallicity [Fe/H] via the use of the (U-B) excess. If the clusters also have “red clump” stars, such as NGC1798 and Do02, these procedures can be iterated between the clump and main sequence stars to establish even better the values of E(B-V) and [Fe/H]. Finally, color-magnitude diagrams, such as (B-V, V) and (V-I, V), are being employed together with the SchmidtKaler (1982) colors and Padova isochrones of Girardi et al. (2000) to obtain distances and ages for these clusters. A java-based computer program is being developed to help in the visualization and analysis of these photometric data. This system is capable of displaying each cluster simultaneously in different color-color and color-magnitude diagrams and has an interactive way to identify a star, or group of stars, in one diagram and to see were it falls in the other diagrams, facilitating the elimination of field stars and the apperception of cluster features. This program is capable of displaying up to 16 different diagrams for one cluster and processing up to 20 clusters at the same time. Our aims are the following: (1) a common UBVRI photometric scale for open clusters, (2) an atlas of color-color and color-magnitude diagrams for open clusters, (3) a homogeneous set of cluster reddenings, distances, and ages, (4) an increased number of old and distant open clusters, and (5) a selection of interesting clusters for further study.

Integrating enterprise system applications within the accounting curriculum has been a major challenge for over eight years. Enterprise systems education is surprisingly well documented within the literature of enterprise system education. Not surprisingly, most of these papers provide a descriptive study of individual experiences of an institution of an academic unit. This paper focuses on the use of a practice case set within the accounting curriculum of a four year liberal arts based accounting program. The results of the integration of this practice case show the ability of enterprise software to bring textbook concepts to life and a high satisfaction level among the students using this package.

AbstrakTelah terjadi perubahan wilayah gempa di Indonesia, sehingga diterbitkanlah peraturan gempa baru, yaitu SNI 1726-2012 yang menggantikan SNI 1726-2002. Oleh karena itu bangunan saat ini harus direncanakan dengan peraturan baru. Perubahan SNI gempa ini berakibat pada perencanaan struktur pada bangunan gedung. Penelitian dilakukan dengan membuat model struktur bangunan kantor 3 lantai menggunakan program computer SAP 2000 v.14. Lokasi bangunan yang diteliti berada di Jakarta, Bandung, dan Yogyakarta. Parameter bangunan untuk SNI 1726-2002 dan SNI 1726-2012 pada tiga kota tersebut adalah sama, hal ini bertujuan karena penelitian dilakukan untuk membandingkan efek gempa terhadap nilai momen pada balok beton bertulang pada kota tersebut. Dari hasil analisis program computer SAP 2000 v.14 didapatkan peningkatan nilai momen ultimit awal balok menggunakan SNI 1726-2012 dibandingkan dengan SNI 1726-2002 pada Kota Jakarta sebesar 7,1%, Kota Bandung sebesar 39,38%, dan Kota Yogyakarta sebesar 32,85%. Peningkatan terbesar terjadi pada Kota Bandung, dan terkecil pada Kota Jakarta. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan seismisitas yang cukup signifikan di Kota Bandung dan Yogyakarta. Kata kunci: Gempa, Struktur Balok, Momen

ABSTRACT Background Studies across medical specialties have shown that scores on residency self-assessment examinations (SAEs) can predict performance on certifying board examinations. Objective This study explored the predictive abilities of different composite SAE scores in physical medicine and rehabilitation and determined an optimal cut-point to identify an “at-risk” performance group. Methods For our study, both predictive scores (SAE scores) and outcomes (board examination scores) are expressed in national percentile scores. We analyzed data in graduates of a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program between 2008 and 2014. We compared mean, median, lowest, highest, and most recent score among up to 3 SAE scores with respect to their associations with the outcome via linear and logistic regression. We computed regression/correlation coefficient, P value, R2, area under the curve, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values. Identification of optimal cut-point was guided by accuracy, discrimination, and model-fit statistics. Results Predictor and outcome data were available for 88 of 99 residents. In regression models, all SAE predictors showed significant associations (P ≤ .001) and the mean score performed best (r = 0.55). A 1-point increase in mean SAE was associated with a 1.88 score increase in board score and a 16% decrease in odds of failure. The rule of mean SAE score below 47 yielded the highest accuracy, highest discrimination, and best model fit. Conclusions Mean SAE score may be used to predict performance on the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation–written examination. The optimal statistical cut-point to identify the at-risk group for failure appears to be around the 47th SAE national percentile.

International Business Machines (18M) and IBM Global Services South, that provide informational technology (IT) services for customers, have a strong commitment to deliver world-class customer service and to maintain highly skilled technical administrators. Distributed Database Services, a division of IBM Global Services South, is made up of two teams, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions Delivery and Database Delivery. The ERP Solutions Delivery Team handles Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing, Real-time Version 3 (SAP R/3) support and BASIS (SAP R/3 kernel) support; Database Delivery team handles database support for DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix and several smaller relational database environments. The Oracle databases are running in a SAP environment, so database administrators must be technically proficient in SAP as well as Oracle. Training will be a continual, expensive problem for these two teams, especially for the Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions Delivery Team since the DBAs are geographically dispersed. A solution to handle mentoring, collaborating and maintaining skills anytime, anyplace, any pace for SAP R/3 database administrators was a very high priority. Lotus Corporation, a subsidiary of IBM, recently announced its Learning Space was industry's first instructor-led, collaborative distance learning solution with Web access. A Web-based prototype for collaborative learning, mentoring and maintaining skills was a viable solution for geographically dispersed, mobile database administrators. The problem to be solved in this study was the lack of effective collaboration among SAP R/3 database administrators that are located in different geographical areas. Without this collaboration, work on critical tasks was problematic. Geographically dispersed database administrators must work from a distance that precludes daily face-to-face meetings with other database administrators. Solving this problem was critical to successful implementation and maintenance of SAP databases. The Internet was selected as the way to increase collaboration and overcome the associated dysfunction among geographically dispersed database administrators working on SAP Rl3 projects. The collaboration would include mentoring, maintaining skill levels, sharing documentation, sharing work procedures and techniques, sharing run procedures and policies, and collaborative problem repositories. Expectations were this collaborative prototype would reduce costs and raise productivity of dispersed Systems SAP R/3 database administrators. The prototype would supplement the cost of corporate education and bring IBM Global Services South (IGSS) cost of doing business to lower levels.

Implementeringen av ett ERP-system ses inte längre som en ren informations¬teknisk angelägenhet utan en förändring som påverkar hela verksamheten. En implementering, ur vårt perspektiv, är en införandeprocess som har sin början i organisationens motiv till en implementering, valet av system och val av leverantör. Implementeringens omfattning sträcker sig i vår studie till den dag hela systemet tas i bruk. Forskningsfrågor som denna uppsats behandlar är vad som karaktäriserar en implementering av ERP-systemet SAP R/3 samt vad som innefattas i implementeringsbegreppet.

Uppsatsen har utförts genom en komparativ kvalitativ fallstudie där data in¬hämtats genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Vårt teoretiska fundament utgår ifrån åtta teoretiska sektioner och benämns som ”oktanten”. De områden som ingår i vår oktant är strategi, projekt, process och funktion, standardsystem, organisationsanpassning, systemanpassning, utbildning samt testning och fel¬sökning. Valet av teoretiska aspekter täcker upp de mest väsentliga områden som lämpar sig bäst för vår fokusering av ämnet och bidrar till att besvara vår andra forskningsfråga.

Vi har i denna studie valt att studera hur två organisationers implementering av SAP R/3 har gått till, vad resultatet har varit och varför det blev som det blev. Resultatet, som gäller i båda de studerade fallen, visar att en implementering karaktäriseras av fyra perspektiv som avser strategi, innovation, kommunikation och samarbete. Utöver de karaktäriserande perspektiven utgörs särskilt viktiga aspekter inom processbearbetning.

Resultatet utifrån de fyra perspektiven beskrivs mer utförligt men kortfattat nedan.

Strategi: underskattning av planerad resursförbrukning och överskridande av deadlines samt bristande stöd från ledningen.

Innovation: motiveringssvårigheter vid förändring hos användarna.

Kommunikation: särskilt lyckad placering av projektgrupper på samma geografiska plats.

Samarbete: otillräcklig utbildning och brist på utbildningskompetens, stort supportbehov samt överlåtande av arbetsansvar till konsulter.

Implementing an ERP-system is no longer considered an information technology concern purely but a change affecting the whole organization. An implementation is, by our definition, an initiation process starting with the motives of the organization to execute the implementation, choice of system and choice of vendor. The scope of the implementation, in our study, stretches until the day the system goes live. This thesis attends following research questions: what characterises implementation of the ERP-system SAP R/3 and what is included in the concept of implementation?

The thesis has been performed through a comparative qualitative case study where data has been collected during semi-standard interviews. Our theoretical foundation is divided into eight sectors forming an octant all together. Areas composing our octant are strategy, project and function, standard system, organizational adoption, system adoption, education and testing and error detection. The choice of theoretical aspects covers the most vital areas suitable for our focus on the subject and contributes to answering our second research question.

In this study we have chosen to examine the process of two organizations implementations of SAP R/3, the outcome and why it resulted in the way it did.

The result shows that, for both cases, a implementation is characterised of four perspectives concerning strategy, innovation, communication and cooperation. In addition to the characterised perspectives certain aspects of process re-engineering are particularly important.

The result out of the four perspectives is more detailed but briefly describes bellow.

Strategy: underestimation in consumption of resources and exceeding deadlines along with lack of top management support

Innovation: difficulties motivating users for the change.

Communication: exceptional success in placing members of the projects at same geographical location.

Cooperation: insufficient level of education, lack of educational competence, great need of support and responsibility of work delegated to consultants

Detta examensarbete behandlar affärssystem (även kallade ERP-system) och implementering av dessa. ERP betyder Enterprise Resource Planning och innebär ett integrerat system som innefattar hela företagets verksamhet.

Att införa ett affärssystem i en organisation är en stor investering och ofta en komplicerad uppgift, det är därför bra om tidigare erfarenheter från liknande implementationer kan utnyttjas. I mitt arbete har jag undersökt vilka faktorer en organisation bör beakta för att erhålla en lyckad implementering. Arbetet har bedrivits i form av en fallstudie där jag genom intervjuer med projektdeltagare har studerat den implementation som Volvo Lastvagnar Komponenter AB i Skövde nyligen har genomfört av affärssystemet SAP R/3.

Resultatet av undersökningen kan sammanfattas i tre övergripande områden; planering, utbildning och resurser. Dessa områden är alla viktiga att beakta i samband med en implementering av ett affärssystem för att implementeringen skall nå ett, för företaget, lyckat resultat.

I dagens hårda konkurrenssituation krävs det mer och mer av företags informations-system. Detta gör att fler och fler företag väljer att implementera ett integrerat affärs-system. Integreringen gör att företag får en enhetlig systemmiljö för hela företagets informationsbehandling. Implementeringen är dock en kostsam och tidskrävande process (Ekstrand, 1998). Mitt arbete behandlar frågeställningarna om varför företag väljer att implementera ett affärssystem, hur implementeringen förlöpte samt hur affärssystemet fungerar när implementeringen är färdig.

Bland de företag jag vände mig till så var den främsta anledningen till att företag installerar ett affärssystem att systemen är omfattande och integrerade.

Jag kom även till slutsatsen att det nästan är omöjligt att genomföra en implementering av ett affärssystem helt smärtfritt. Problemen beror dock inte alltid på affärssystemet utan på t.ex. dålig beredskap från företagens sida.

Sammanfattningsvis fick jag intrycket att de flesta företag är nöjda med sitt val av system och de som inte ännu såg nyttan med systemen trodde att de inom kort skulle göra det.

This study set out to ascertain whether or not Telkom's SAP Rl3! process modification adaptation strategy resulted in improved supply chain performance. For Telkom who have struggled, at great expense and with great frustration, with incompatible information systems and inconsistent operating practices, the promise of an off-the-shelf solution, in the form of SAP R3, to solve its problem of supply chain integration was too great to resist. There are two alternative approaches to implementation of packaged software: Package adaptation to organisational needs and organisational adaptation to the package. This research revealed that typically, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors recommend process adaptation and discourage ERP adaptations for the fear of potential performance and integrity degradation as well as maintenance and future upgrade difficulties - however, enterprises often find reasons to stray from that directive. Telkom decided to use the process modification and enhancement ERP adaptation strategy for its SAP Rl3 implementation, because management believes that by enhancing the speed and effectiveness of business processes before implementing SAP Rl3, the full benefits SAP Rl3 will be realised. Telkom redesigned 489 processes to take full advantage of the new system's capabilities, in particular its ability to simplify the flow of information. Taking a broad look at the results and comments made regarding Telkom's SAP Rl3 implementation, it was found that Telkom's SAP Rl3 implementation strategy resulted in quick achievements of a positive return on investment (ROI) when comparing pre- and postimplementation performance. Inventory levels, receivables, operating costs, order cycle times, stock turns, labour and distribution expenditures have all improved. On the other hand, fifty percent of the peer group benchmark baselines were not matched or exceeded by Telkom's measured post-implementation performance. It was found that Telkom's supply chain performance is tightly related to three areas of concern identified in this research: Problems with SAP and c-commerce integration, SAP's forecasting ability remains at a disadvantage, and the issue of Telkom not benchmarking their supply chain performance. It was also found that process improvement emerged as the principal element that enabled Telkom to realise the measured benefits of its ERP implementation. I SAP Rl3 stands for Systems, Applications and Products, Real time, 3-tier architecture.
Thesis (M.B.A. -University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

M.Com. (Computer Auditing)
The management and control of modern day computer systems are becoming more and more trying due to the complexity of systems. This renders the traditional approach to evaluating controls in complex computer systems, inadequate and heightens the need for an alternative audit approach. The complex SAP R/3 environment will be evaluated in terms of security and validity of users and processes. This will be achieved through the use of an alternative audit approach namely, the application of the Access Path and Path Context Models (Boshoff 1985, 1990). The research methodology used during this research may indicate universal application implications for similar complex environments, although this has not yet been proved. The research showed that there are many control features available in the different software c.omponents of the SAP R/3 environment, that can be applied to control access and validity of users and processes. The duplication of control features provided by the software components, requires a global approach to security inthe defined environment. Only when evaluating the environment as a whole, will it be able to make the most effective security decisions. The use of the control matrices developed during this research will ease the global evaluation of the SAP R/3 environment. Although further research is required, the above has proven the usefulness of both the research methodology and the resultant model and matrices.

AbstractWe study discrete probabilistic programs with potentially unbounded looping behaviors over an infinite state space. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first decidability result for the problem of determining whether such a program generates exactly a specified distribution over its outputs (provided the program terminates almost-surely). The class of distributions that can be specified in our formalism consists of standard distributions (geometric, uniform, etc.) and finite convolutions thereof. Our method relies on representing these (possibly infinite-support) distributions as probability generating functions which admit effective arithmetic operations. We have automated our techniques in a tool called $$\textsc {Prodigy}$$ P R O D I G Y , which supports automatic invariance checking, compositional reasoning of nested loops, and efficient queries to the output distribution, as demonstrated by experiments.

This chapter commences with a brief description of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), follows by a description of SAP, the largest enterprise software provider in the world. The timeline of activities since its inception in 1972 are summarized in a table. SAP’s flagship software program, the R/3 system, is portrayed in more detail. The capabilities of the R/3 system, the three-tier client/server technology it employs, its hardware and software, and several problems associated with its implementation and use are discussed. The two R/3 implementation tools – namely, the Accelerated SAP and the Ready to Run systems – are also described.

The lecture ‘Can Digital Computers Think?’ was broadcast on BBC Radio on 15 May 1951, and was repeated on 3 July of that year. (Sara Turing relates that Turing did not listen to the Wrst broadcast but did ‘pluck up courage’ to listen to the repeat.) Turing’s was the second lecture in a series with the general title ‘Automatic Calculating Machines’. Other speakers in the series included Newman, D. R. Hartree, M. V. Wilkes, and F. C. Williams. Turing’s principal aim in this lecture is to defend his view that ‘it is not altogether unreasonable to describe digital computers as brains’, and he argues for the proposition that ‘If any machine can appropriately be described as a brain, then any digital computer can be so described’. The lecture casts light upon Turing’s attitude towards talk of machines thinking. In Chapter 11 he says that in his view the question ‘Can machines think?’ is ‘too meaningless to deserve discussion’ (p. 449). However, in the present chapter he makes liberal use of such phrases as ‘programm[ing] a machine . . . to think’ and ‘the attempt to make a thinking machine’. In one passage, Turing says (p. 485): ‘our main problem [is] how to programme a machine to imitate a brain, or as we might say more briefly, if less accurately, to think.’ He shows the same willingness to discuss the question ‘Can machines think?’ in Chapter 14. Turing’s view is that a machine which imitates the intellectual behaviour of a human brain can itself appropriately be described as a brain or as thinking. In Chapter 14, Turing emphasizes that it is only the intellectual behaviour of the brain that need be considered (pp. 494–5): ‘To take an extreme case, we are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge. We don’t want to say ‘‘This machine’s quite hard, so it isn’t a brain, and so it can’t think.’’ ’ It is, of course, the ability of the machine to imitate the intellectual behaviour of a human brain that is examined in the Turing test (Chapter 11).

This paper considers the «problem of choice» of holding meetings of student scientific circles of the departments of operative surgery with topographic anatomy (OKHITA) and medical informatics and statistics (MIIS) N.N. Burdenko VSMU. This topic is currently very relevant, since the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection continues in Russia and around the world. At the beginning of the article, the information on the use of specialized electronic programs and electronic educational environments in the complex educational process is provided; the issues of their use at various stages of distance learning during an unfavorable epidemiological situation are analysed. However, according to the authors, very little attention is paid to additional aspects of the complex educational process, which are various student comeptitions, student scientific circles and student scientific societies. The aim of the work was an attempt to determine the form of meetings of the Council of People's Commissars of departments of various orientations (theoretical and practical), to determine the attitude of the respondents themselves – representatives of the teaching staff and students to the form of holding meetings of the Council of People's Commissars, depending on the epidemiological situation, and also to choose the most suitable electronic educational environment or computer program. The objects of the study were 50 employees of various departments of N.N. Burdenko VSMU (from among the teaching staff, who made up 1 group of subjects) and 100 students of the medical faculty – 2 and 4 years (who made up the 2 and 3 groups of subjects). The study was based on anonymous questionnaires. It was found that regardless of the direction of the department (practical – OKHITA or theoretical – MIiS), many respondents advocated the traditional (face-to-face) meetings of the Council of People's Commissars, subject to the normalization of the epidemiological situation. However, as it worsened, the majority favored remote, online, meetings of the Council of People's Commissars. An «interesting» result was obtained when processing the results of choosing an electronic platform for holding meetings of the Council of People's Commissars. So, despite the presence in N.N. Burdenko VSMU, specialized electronic educational environments, the «winner» and a kind of choice of respondents was the computer program «Zoom». The obvious choice of university staff from among the teaching staff and students makes it possible to recommend this program as a kind of «platform» for holding meetings of student scientific communities and circles.

This paper examines some aspects of the student scientific clubs (SSC) of the departments of a medical university during an unfavorable epidemiological situation caused by a new coronavirus infection. Variants of conducting SSC using various electronic educational environments and computer programs are considered. The many years of experience in holding meetings of the SSC at the Department of Operative Surgery with Topographic Anatomy (OS&TA) of VSMU named after N.N. Burdenko are summarized. The relevance of this work is due to the forced transition, due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation, to distance learning, many teachers and lecturers of higher education began to pay attention to various aspects of the educational process, including the issues of conducting classes, lecturing, solving emerging technical problems. However, so far little attention has been paid to the issues of holding student scientific circles of departments of various universities, including medical ones. The purpose of the work is an attempt to evaluate the holding of the first in the history of the Department of OS&TA, a remote meeting of the SSC on a number of parameters, among which the leading ones were general satisfaction with the meet-ing, its relevance, identification of positive and negative aspects. The objects of the study were 138 students of 2–6 courses of medical, 3–6 courses of pediatric and 2–4 courses of dental faculties. The stages of the research were: studying the distribution of respondents depending on the faculty and course, indicating their age; study of the total attendance at meetings of the SSC over the past 5 years, depending on the month; identifying the reasons for the high attendance of students to the first remote meeting in the history of the department; determination of the overall satisfaction of students with the meeting, as well as the main positive and negative aspects. It was found that the students were generally satisfied with the meeting. The desire to gain additional knowledge on the subject during the period of distance learning led to a high turnout of students, which, at the same time, «revealed» a number of negative aspects. The main one was the impossibility of simultaneous connection of more than 100 participants in the basic tariff of the «Zoom» program. In general, based on the data obtained, one can judge the success of the remote meeting of the SSC of the departments of a medical university. However, with a large number of participants, it is more expedient to use an alternative electronic environment or program, which could be, for example, the Webinar system.

The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate how cost benefit analysis can be applied to large-scale ERP projects, and that these methods can incorporate the intangible benefits, e.g., user satisfaction. Detailed information on the business case utilized by a large computer manufacturer in their decision to implement the SAP system R/3 is presented. We illustrate how this organization utilized techniques to include intangibles in the implementation project’s cost benefit analysis. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the state of valuing ERP projects and questions to be answered in the future.

The work raises questions of predicting the complications of pregnancy and childbirth and adverse conditions in the fetus in the presence of UCTD in the expectant mother, who also need to be studied, especially from the standpoint of mathematical modeling of the disease. It is also necessary to develop a common tactic for providing medical and social assistance and treatment and diagnostic services to pregnant women suffering from UCTD, which will make the outcome of childbirth more favorable and improve the subsequent prognosis for mother and newborn. In the literature there is practically no assessment of the course of pregnancy and the outcome of childbirth, depending on the severity of UCTD. Little is known about the role of a connective tissue metabolism marker - hydroxyproline, trace elements (magnesium) and vitamins (D3) in pregnant women suffering from UCTD, and the medical tactics regarding such patients are not clearly defined. Despite numerous successes in the study of the causes of complications during pregnancy and childbirth in women suffering from UCTD, a unified approach to their management during the prenatal stage has not yet been developed. Therefore, the search for possible predictors for the timely prediction of adverse pregnancy and childbirth outcome in such patients is becoming increasingly important. This will make it possible to develop an optimal organizational and methodological base and subsequently improve the prognosis for women and their offspring. Thus, in contrast to the existing standard approach, we have proposed a comprehensive management of patients suffering from UCTD, including the timely identification of patients from the risk group, clarification of their condition using such markers as magnesium and hydroxyproline, additional intake of magnesium and vitamin D preparations. Optimal plan managing the period of gestation, childbirth, and a pathogenetically reasoned set of treatment and preventive measures for women with UCTD, will not only improve the outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth, but also contribute to the health of the future generation. 1. UCTD affects the course of pregnancy, childbirth and the condition of the newborn. The degree of exposure is largely determined by the severity of the underlying disease. In severe UCTD, the prevalence of spontaneous miscarriage and preterm labor was significantly higher, and endometritis and severe anemia were more common in the postpartum period. Severe asphyxia on the Apgar scale at the 1st and 5th minutes, congenital heart defects, morphofunctional immaturity, conjugation jaundice and convulsive syndrome were more common in the fetus. 2. A low content of magnesium and hydroxyproline is associated with the occurrence of complications during childbirth and a decrease in the anthropometric characteristics of the newborn. Taking magnesium preparations reliably affects the concentration of this trace element and hydroxyproline in the blood of pregnant women suffering from UCTD. 3. Therapy with magnesium preparations is an effective tool in patients suffering from UCTD, as it helps to improve well-being during pregnancy, improves the course of the postpartum period and reduces the prevalence of chronic fetal hypoxia. 4. Vitamin D and magnesium supplements have a beneficial effect on pregnancy and the fetus, reducing the prevalence of pre-eclampsia and chronic intrauterine hypoxia of the fetus, reducing the incidence of morphofunctional immaturity and conjugation jaundice of the newborn. 5. The created computer program “STEP DST” can be applied in the clinical practice of obstetrician-gynecologists and health care organizers. The obtained individual forecast of the probability of development of complications of reproduction allows us to outline the optimal plan for managing the period of gestation, childbirth and the postpartum period, to prescribe a pathogenetically based set of therapeutic and preventive measures for women suffering from UCTD.

For nuclear power plants, the four major requirements are 1) high safety, 2) high reliability, 3) good economical acceptability, and 4) as few as possible environmental impact. However, it is still difficult to completely avoid problems for structural materials as structural stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and for piping systems as flow accelerated corrosion (FAC), liquid drop impulsion erosion (LDI). Especially FAC and LDI are uncertainty phenomenon as pipe wall thinning, so there is the piping rupture accident risk on all of piping systems under the specific conditions. In Japan, after in August 2004, the accident of the secondary pipe rupture in Mihama Power Plant Unit 3, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO), R&D projects about pipe wall thinning phenomenon and mechanism had been promoted in many organizations. The other hand it is requested to evaluate the safety and reliability of piping systems of long term operating plant and with on special case of seismic condition. It was requested to be able to evaluate pipe wall thinning and its reliability with more accurate. This project had programmed under the government budget from 2006 planed until 2010 fiscal year [1]. At the mile stone of half span, the project had these fruits, 1) Computer program for FAC simulation, 2) Droplet phenomena for LDI simulation, 3) Simplified calculation model of pipe wall thinning for seismic evaluation.

In order to detect hypercoagulable state due to the increase or decrease of coagulation factors and inhibitors concentrations or the presence of active coagulation factors or tissue factor in plasma, highly sensitive automated methods were developed using fluorogenic substrate for thrombin. Coagulability of human plasma was measured by mixing 3 yl of plasma with Thromborel S (TF), calcium and Boc-Val-Pro-Arg-MCA(MCA) (Fluorogenic PT, FPT). FPT of normal plasma was shortened by the addition of purified X or VII (Final conc. 1-5 U per ml), and of thrombin (0.3-1 ng) or Xa (10500 pg). Factors VII and X contents in plasma were measured by mixing 3 yl of diluted plasma with each factor deficient plasma, TF, calcium and MCA in which 10 %-800 % of each factor was quantitatively measured. TF and Xa were measured by mixing with XII or X deficient plasma, phospholipid, calcium and MCA. By this method, 5-500 pg of Xa or 1-1000 units of TF (assuming that one vial of Thromborel S contains 2,000,000 U TF per ml) was quantitatively measured. All the experiments were performed using a centrifugal autoanalyzer (Cobas Bio) with FIA module. The reaction time to reach 0.1 relative fluorescence was calculated by a computer using a program developed by us.These automated methods were applied to examine the hypercoagulability of plasmas from patients with cerebral infarction. Sixty five samples out of 75 showed shorter FPT than control plasma. Xa was detected with the conc. of 3-13 ng Xa per ml. FPT of patient plasmas correlated with Xa content (r=0.70) and X (r=0.63). Xa activity of patient plasma was eluted in the same peak as purified X on gel-filtration of Sephacryl S-200 column and completely inhibited by anti X rabbit IgG. Xa activity was also found in normal serum. The conventional PT or chromogenic PT methods are sensitive to hypocoagulable state but not to hypercoagulab le state. The present automated methods were proved to be sensitive to hypercoagulable state and demonstrated that the presence of Xa or the increase of X concentration in plasma contributes in part to the hypercoagulable state of cerebral infarction.

For nuclear power plants, the four major requirements are 1) high safety, 2) high reliability, 3) economical competitiveness, and 4) minimum environmental impact. However, it is still difficult to completely avoid problems concerning structural materials caused by stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and for piping systems caused by flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) and liquid drop impingement (LDI). Since especially FAC and LDI are uncertain phenomena as pipe wall thinning, there are the piping rupture accident risks on all piping systems under the specific conditions. In Japan, after August 2004, the accident of the secondary pipe rupture in Mihama Power Plant Unit 3, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO), R&D projects on pipe wall thinning phenomena and mechanism have been employed by many organizations. On the other hand, evaluation of the safety and reliability of piping systems of long term operating plants and with the special attention to seismic condition have been requested. It was requested to enable evaluation of pipe wall thinning and its reliability with more accuracy. This project was programmed under the government budget from 2006 to 2010 fiscal year according to the Strategy Load-Map for Ageing Management generated by the society of industry, government and academia [1]. As the milestone for the first half decade of the load-map, the project had these achievements: 1) Establish computer program for FAC simulation, 2) Clarify droplet behavior for LDI prediction, 3) Simplified calculation model of pipe wall thinning for seismic evaluation, 4) Evaluate safety margin of thinned piping by FAC or LDI.

Human health is one of the most important concerns for the governments around the world. Global organizations such as WHO (World Health Organization) and PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) have considerable interest in organizing vaccination programs and its cold chain delivery. The problem predominantly persists in Lower-middle income countries like India where due to inadequate infrastructure and lack of consistent Power supply, significant losses occur in the cold chain. Improvements are required to prevent the loss of costly and precious vaccines during the cold chain. India lacks a reliable power supply and the resulting power cuts interrupt the cold chain, leading to a loss of vaccine potency since they are not within the temperature range of 2–8 °C. This paper studies the current VCB (vaccine carrier box) and cold chain design through the aid of Computer modelling and simulations. Also a novel experimental setup to examine insulation R-value has been devised and studied. Based on this a new design approach is utilized to model a thermoelectric system and early designing is done through the aid of 3-D printing.

The EPR is an Evolutionary high-Power Reactor which is based on the best French and German experience of the past twenty years in plant design construction and operation. In the present detailed engineering phase of the plant under construction in Finland (Okiluoto 3) and in France (Flamanville 3), some actions were conducted in order to improve the knowledge of the hydraulic behavior of the innovative Reactor Pressure Vessel internals (RPV). The RPV internals are mainly derived from former French N4 or German Konvoi with some evolutions to take into account the operating experience. Design and validation of the internals were performed within AREVA’s engineering teams, which develop state of the art methods in the field of thermohydraulic testing. The experimental validation program was closely followed by EDF. Moreover, an EDF R&D project, whose results are not addressed here, was held to consolidate the RPV internals conception. The aim of the paper is to present the hydraulic tests performed on mock-ups to characterize the hydraulic behavior of the innovative EPR Reactor Pressure Vessel internals, and to introduce the role of these tests in the global conception process of the EPR RPV internals (CFD code qualification, design validation, database...). The qualification of the CFD computer codes will be described in a forthcoming paper. Three different mock-ups are presented to illustrate these tests: • JULIETTE for the reactor pressure vessel lower internals, • ROMEO for the reactor pressure vessel upper internals, • MAGALY for the design of the skeleton-type control rod guide assembly.

With the continuous development of interactive technology, informatization has begun to integrate into people's life[1].Having been neglected in history, postpartum depression reminds us that we need to pay attention to maternal emotional needs and prenatal care[2]. In the current situation, it is worth researching the interactive products for prenatal emotional care. According to the survey, it is not difficult to find that some speech emotion and facial expression recognition technologies in artificial intelligence are developing Which have large potential for extensive use.[3,4]. Therefore, it is necessary and feasible to design prenatal emotional diagnosis tools for pregnant women. This study has designed a product to care for pregnant women by identifying their emotional needs through AI recognition technologies. Appropriate prenatal intervention is conducive to the prevention of postpartum depression[5,6] . The use of artificial intelligence recognition technology can provide an appropriate emotional care plan. This can reduce the difficulty of training medical personnel and the difficulty of relatives caring for pregnant women. Therefore, the risk of postpartum depression can be reduced. QUESTIONCollecting opinions and information from previous studies is an important reference for this study. Therefore, this study needs to solve the following problems.1) How to design an artificial intelligence product that can accurately diagnose the emotion of pregnant women?2) How to integrate AI facial emotion recognition technology?3) How to help nurses and their families take care of users more professionally and easily through the information database?4) How to adapt the emotional care program provided by interactive products to different pregnant women? Methods:the research methods of this study are as follows:1) Observing the working process of artificial midwives and psychologists to find Which part can be assisted by machines[7].2) To understand the emotional needs of pregnant women through interview.3) To brainstorm according to the real data collected before and research findings, and then design interactive products that can practically solve the emotional care problems of pregnant women.4) Through the experiment of AI emotion recognition technologies, the feasibility of emotion recognition is verified. CONCLUSIONS:With the continuous development of artificial intelligence, more and more artificial intelligence products have entered our life [1]. This study is aimed to help pregnant women prevent prenatal and postpartum depression and maintain their health through artificial intelligence interaction technologies. This study is exploring the solution under the help of artificial intelligence after studying the problem that prenatal and postpartum emotion are neglected. This design is still in the conceptual design stage, but it seems only a matter of time before this design is applied in the future[8]. REFERENCES:[1]. Lee H S , Lee J . Applying Artificial Intelligence in Physical Education and Future Perspectives. 2021.[2]. Beck C T . Postpartum depression: it isn't just the blues.[J]. American Journal of Nursing, 2006, 106(5):40-50.[3].Ramakrishnan S , Emary I M M E . Speech emotion recognition approaches in human computer interaction[J]. Telecommunication Systems, 2013, 52(3):OnLine-First.[4]. Samara A , Galway L , Bond R , et al. Affective state detection via facial expression analysis within a human–computer interaction context[J]. Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing, 2017.[5]. Clatworthy J . The effectiveness of antenatal interventions to prevent postnatal depression in high-risk women[J]. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2012, 137(1-3):25-34.[6]. Ju C H , Hye K J , Jae L J . Antenatal Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Prevention of Postpartum Depression: A Pilot Study[J]. Yonsei Medical Journal, 2008, 49(4):553-.[7]. Fletcher A , Murphy M , Leahy-Warren P . Midwives' experiences of caring for women's emotional and mental well-being during pregnancy[J]. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2021.[8]. Jin X , Liu C , Xu T , et al. Artificial intelligence biosensors: Challenges and prospects[J]. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2020, 165:112412.